The Hip Hop Architecture Camp and Madison Public Library earned a national award "2017 Top Innovation in Race and Social Equity" from The Urban Libraries Council.

“When he was teaching it, he wasn’t just teaching about building. He’s also teaching about the history of hip hop, and how it related to architecture itself. I found that to be very interesting,” said Khadisah Murphry, now a junior at Madison West High School, who attended the Madison camp in February. “Before the program, I didn’t necessarily think Architecture as a career. I was thinking more like, ‘I need to make money. Let me try to be a doctor,’ kind of thing. But during the program, it was very interesting to me because when he said hip hop and architecture, I was thinking about back at home in Chicago. And how the history of how the buildings were built, and the history of those buildings. When the program was over, I was thinking, “Ooh, this is really something that I should look into,” because I like to draw, for one. I love history, so those are two things I would definitely like to do. It was something there that just made me want to do it.”

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